
Sleazy French men… What are they all about?
Do they believe that the accent gives them a license to schmooze? That women’s pants will drop at the mere intonation of their voice?

No. My friends, I tell you ‘No!’. The jig is up! Maybe this worked in the 70’s, but not now. Unless you’re a drunk straight woman, and then maybe…
Obviously I am not the Frenchman’s target audience, which may have created a magical force field that renders me immune to their charms, but whoever wrote the Frenchman’s guide to picking up women was sorely mistaken. Women have evolved, and we’re not longer like bees to a French honey pot. We’ve got an in-built App in our brains now that puts everything you say into an Australian accent, and to tell you the truth…you aren’t that special anymore.
My friend, Dr. Draw, and I met a Frenchman tonight. And I think he thought his suit, slicked back hair, and the fact he said he was a Software Salesman in a French accent would go a long way. It did not. Even when he drawled the word ‘Enterprise’ and looked excitedly back at us, we did not bat an eyelid. We work in advertising, we deal with ‘buzz words’ on a daily basis. Hell, we create buzz words!
No, we were more annoyed that he had interrupted our pub dinner where we were cracking advertising jokes and laughing about things like ‘If most of society were wiped out by a plague, what would people do without graphic designers and digital strategists?!’.
And just in case you haven’t thought about it…
If the world had no graphic designers signs would no longer be pretty and meaningful, and you’d have no idea what to buy.
And…
There would be nobody to find holes in the user journey of a Facebook App if Digital Strategists didn’t exist.
We were battling #1stworldproblems, and the Frenchman had rudely interrupted our evening as he attempted to hit on us.
Why am I writing such a scathing review of Frenchie’s attempts to woo Dr. Draw and I? Well, he played the ‘Guilt Game’ with us. Allow me to explain:
He originally approached the table to give me tips on my coaster flipping technique. Warranted. I’m ok with flipping coasters, but it’s a talent I’m still working on. After putting in his two cents and telling us he could ‘flip 30 coasters’ back in Europe…That’s a totally unbelievable figure by the way! I mightn’t have been flipping coasters for very long, but you’d struggle to even find 30 dry coasters in a bar, let alone flip 30 and catch them.
Anyway… He did eventually go back to his table.
After 5 or so minutes, he returned giving the excuse that his friend needed to leave to meet his girlfriend at the ballet and he didn’t want to finish his beer alone.
Is ballet even on a Wednesday?! Or was he trying the ol’ ‘I’m going to tell you my best friend is in a relationship, likes ballet and therefore by association and because I have a French accent you should date me’ trick. Entirely possible.
Dr. Draw replied with a sigh to his request. Yes, he could sit with us until he finished his beer. By no means was she rude, we were just not in the mood for his advances. Bravely or stupidly, he responded and entered the dangerous territory of:
‘Why do women always make men feel about this big?! All I was saying is that I did not want to be alone, and it would have been nice if you’d just said that I could sit with you.’
Of course, we reluctantly apologised, and this is where he gleefully sat down and explained that he had ‘won’. He had hoped we’d feel bad and invite him to sit down. Little did he know that he’d sat with a wily lesbian and an equally wily straight woman. No deal Frenchy, no deal.
Over the course of the next 20 minutes or so he continued to try his seduction techniques on us, and like a mosquitoes being deflected by one of those things you set on fire at bbq’s…we drifted further and further away. But, we did give him a B+ for the effort of approaching, and an F- for originality.
Just because you’re French doesn’t mean that every girl is going to fall at your feet.
Secondly, when you look like a baddie from a James Bond film, I’m honestly going to sit there while you’re talking and ponder that you actually look Russian, not French, and wonder which character you would be if you were in a James Bond film.

Thirdly…Was he actually French at all, or was it all a pants dropping ploy?!
The fourth card he played: He leads a lonely salesman life where his only indulgences are Foxtel and eating out alone at strange pubs. But in the next sentence, he admitted that he was from Sydney.
Ahh Frenchie, so much to learn. So so much to learn. For your effort, I hope that you come across a women that enjoys a good French stick, that is probably about ‘this big’, which is apparently how strong women make men feel… Or was that just you Mr. French software salesman?
